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What’s
Next.
Investment
$325k
Max project budget
Timeline
18 mo
Phased delivery
Campuses
2
Vista Ridge & Farmers Branch
Phases
4
Sequential rollout
Current State Assessment

What we’re fixing — and why it matters now.

The Branch is running two campuses on end-of-life hardware, legacy AV routing, and expiring security licenses. The roadmap below resolves every issue listed here before it becomes a Sunday morning problem.

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⚠ Critical — Deadline August 17th
Farmers Branch: FortiGate 100E End-of-Life
  • FortiGate 100E reaches end-of-life August 17th — no security patches, no support after that date.
  • Continuing on expired hardware exposes both campuses to unpatched vulnerabilities with no vendor recourse.
  • APs must be swapped before EOL or FortiGate licensing must be renewed — unnecessary cost on dying hardware.
  • Phase 1 replaces the firewall and re-architects the network before this deadline hits.
→ Fixed in Phase 1, Q3/Q4 2026
⚠ Urgent — Deadline October 14th
Vista Ridge: FortiGate 90G Subscriptions Expiring
  • Annual FortiGate subscriptions expire October 14th — UTM, web filtering, and geo-blocking all go dark.
  • Without renewal, the US-only IP policy and category-based blocking lapses immediately.
  • Renewing locks budget into hardware being replaced in Phase 1 anyway.
  • Phase 1 transitions both sites to a modern firewall before the October deadline.
→ Fixed in Phase 1, Q3/Q4 2026
Network Issue — Both Campuses
Double NAT from AV Production Equipment
  • Production equipment on separate routers creates double NAT at both locations.
  • Double NAT breaks device discovery and causes unpredictable latency during live production.
  • Nighthawk routers in traveling cases are a recurring failure point — they drop connections.
  • Phases 2 and 3 replace AV switches and unify production under a single managed topology.
→ Fixed in Phase 2 & 3
Infrastructure — Mixed Hardware
Legacy Switch Mix & Unmanaged AV Segments
  • Mix of Dell PowerConnects and Fortinet switches — no unified management plane.
  • AV hubs use consumer-grade Netgear 8-port switches with no VLAN support or monitoring.
  • 5 Nighthawk routers acting as APs in AV cases are unmanaged and invisible to monitoring.
  • Vista Ridge HVAC on Honeywell IoT APs needs VLAN isolation to prevent lateral movement.
→ Fixed in Phase 2, 3 & 4
Current Equipment Inventory
What’s being replaced, upgraded, or unified
Why It’s Being Replaced
End-of-life hardware, unmanaged segments, and double NAT are active risks
Farmers Branch
Non-AV Network
Access Points6EOL Aug 17
Switches (48-port)2Mixed mgmt
Switches (24-port)2Mixed mgmt
FortiGate Firewall1EOL Aug 17
AV Network
8-port Netgear switches6Unmanaged
24-port switch (booth)1Review
16-port switches3Review
Nighthawk Router/APs3Double NAT
Vista Ridge
Non-AV Network
Access Points14Oct 14 expiry
Switch (48-port)1Mixed mgmt
Switch (24-port)1Mixed mgmt
Switches (16-port)4Review
FortiGate Router1Oct 14 expiry
AV Network
24-port switches2Review
8-port switches6Unmanaged
16-port switches3Review
Nighthawk Router/APs5Double NAT
Case Study — The Branch
IT Infrastructure Roadmap
A 4-phase modernization across Vista Ridge & Farmers Branch campuses, 2026–2028. Click a phase to explore scope and rationale.
$290k–$325k
Total estimated investment
18 months
Phased delivery timeline
2 campuses
Vista Ridge & Farmers Branch
$290k–$325k
Total estimated investment
18 months
Phased delivery timeline
2 campuses
Vista Ridge & Farmers Branch
Project Timeline
18 months, 4 phases — every milestone mapped from day one.
Q3/Q4 2026
Phase 1
Foundation
$45k–$50k
  • EdgeRouter & subnet redesign
  • FortiGate EOL resolved
  • UPS power redundancy
  • VPN deployed
  • 20 APs replaced
Network baseline established
Q1/Q2 2027
Phase 2
Farmers Branch
$110k–$125k
  • AV switches — fix double NAT
  • 12 APs total
  • 40 cameras → ethernet IP
  • 10 access control doors
Farmers Branch modernised
Q3/Q4 2027
Phase 3
Vista Ridge
$75k–$80k
  • AV switches — remove Nighthawks
  • AVL network deployed
  • 40 cameras → ethernet IP
  • Access control unified
Vista Ridge modernised
Q1/Q2 2028
Phase 4
High-Speed Fiber
$60k–$70k
  • 10G fiber to all IDFs
  • 4 runs at Vista Ridge
  • 4 runs at Farmers Branch
Infrastructure complete
Complete Mid 2028
Vista Ridge · Live Model

Facility & Fiber Backbone

Interactive 3D model of the Vista Ridge campus — the MDF, four IDFs, the single-mode fiber backbone that lands in Phase 4, and Wi-Fi access-point coverage across both levels. Drag to orbit · scroll to zoom · right-drag to pan.

MDFIDF A–DFiber 12/24-strandWi-Fi AP
Additional Scope

Outstanding Proposals

The following proposals have been scoped and quoted independently from the 4-phase roadmap.

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The Branch — Fellowship Hall
Project Total: $24,168
Value / Engineering Total: $8,918
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The Branch — LED Cross
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